Rave \Rave\ (r[=a]v), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raved} (r[=a]vd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Raving}.] [F. r[^e]ver to rave, to be
   delirious, to dream; perhaps fr. L. rabere to rave, rage, be
   mad or furious. Cf. {Rage}, {Reverie}.]
   1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk
      or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a
      madman.
      
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            In our madness evermore we rave.      --Chaucer.
      
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            Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
                                                  --Addison.
      
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            The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went
            raving down the valley to the gorge of
            Killiecrankie.                        --Macaulay.
      
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   2. To rush wildly or furiously. --Spenser.
      
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   3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion
      or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he
      raved about her beauty.
      
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            The hallowed scene
            Which others rave of, though they know it not.
                                                  --Byron.
      
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Raving \Rav"ing\ (r[=a]v"[i^]ng), a.
   Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. --
   {Raving*ly}, adv.
   
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raving
     adj : talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic" [syn: {raving  mad}, {wild}]
     n : declaiming wildly; "the raving of maniacs"
     adv : in a raving manner; "raving mad" [syn: {ravingly}]

165 Moby Thesaurus words for "raving":
   Dionysiac, abandoned, afebrile delirium, amok, anarchic, angry,
   babble, babbling, bacchic, balderdash, beaming, bellowing, berserk,
   blooming, bluster, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous,
   bombast, brainstorm, bright, brilliant, bullying, bunk, bunkum,
   carried away, chaotic, claptrap, corybantic, crazed, crazy,
   dazzling, delirious, deliriousness, delirium, demoniac, desperate,
   devastating, distracted, divine, dizzy, ecstatic, enraged,
   enraptured, extraordinary, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad,
   flatulence, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming,
   furious, fustian, gab, gabble, gibberish, giddy, glamorous,
   glorious, glowing, gorgeous, grandiloquence, great, haggard,
   heavenly, hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, hot air,
   howling, hyperbole, hysterical, in a rage, in a transport,
   in hysterics, incoherence, incoherent, infuriate, infuriated,
   insane, insensate, intoxicated, irrational, killing, lightheaded,
   like one possessed, lingual delirium, mad, madding, maenadic,
   magniloquence, maniac, maniacal, manic, mindless, noisy, off,
   orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, outstanding, pandemoniac,
   phenomenal, pomposity, possessed, puffery, rabid, radiant, raging,
   rambling, ramping, rant, ranting, rare, ravening, raving mad,
   ravished, ravishing, resplendent, rhetoric, rip-roaring, roaring,
   roaring mad, rodomontade, roistering, roisterous, rollicking,
   running mad, running wild, savage, shining, sparkling, splendid,
   splendorous, splendrous, stark-raving mad, storming, stormy,
   striking, stunning, sublime, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing,
   tempestuous, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent,
   uncommon, uncontrollable, unusual, uproarious, vaporing, violent,
   wandering, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking